Internal Awards

Mungo Teaching Awards

The Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching awards are awarded to innovative
professors committed to good teaching. Full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty
members who have taught at USC at least three years are eligible to be nominated or
self-nominated for the Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. Full-time, tenured or tenure-track
faculty members who have taught at USC at least five years are eligible to be nominated
or self-nominated for the Mungo Graduate Teaching Award. Recipients are selected annually
from the University of South Carolina Columbia campus faculty. Four undergraduate
teaching awards and one graduate teaching award in the amount of $5,000 are presented.

Criteria for Selection

Nominees must be full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members who have taught
at USC for at least three years (undergraduate) or five years (graduate).

Nominees must teach undergraduate students for the Mungo Undergraduate award or teach
graduate students for the Mungo Graduate award.

Previous Mungo Award recipients are not eligible for nomination.

Recipients of any other teaching award are eligible for nomination.

Nomination Process

Nominations will be accepted from USC Columbia students, faculty, department chairs
and deans or a faculty member may self-nominate.

A nomination form including a brief memo or letter stating the reasons the individual is being nominated
for the award should be submitted. Nominees will then be contacted by the Office of
the Provost and asked to submit the materials below.

Nomination Deadline

Nomination forms are due to the Office of the Provost by Dec. 16, 2016.

Undergraduate Teaching Award

Required materials for nominee's file: (8 page limit)

A three-page vita which includes tenure status and faculty rank

A three-page narrative which summarizes the candidate's philosophy of teaching, involvement
in undergraduate teaching, advising and mentoring of undergraduate students (12 point
font / 1 inch margin)

Course or program development such as courses taught/developed, program development
or revision, instructional materials developed for students and/or uses of current
and emerging technologies

Advisement and career counseling such as development of advisement materials, awards
or recognitions

Research or independent study supervision such as nature and quality of student performance,
nature and quality of supervision, nature and quality of outcomes or products

Mentoring and instructional support to colleagues and teaching assistants, excerpts
of letters from those assisted, description of support offered

Research and writing in the discipline or profession (and related specifically to
teaching) such as: publications, seminars, presentations, video or other technology-
based productions, portfolios, exhibits, concerts

A summary of numerical teaching evaluations with class size (number) included and
comparison of scores with department and college means

Advisement and career counseling such as development of advisement materials; examples
of assistance to students in job placement

Supervision of graduate thesis, portfolios, and dissertations; nature and quality
of the student performance; nature and quality of the outcomes of the products, to
include examples of papers published with students

Mentoring of graduate students, excerpts from letters from those whom the candidate
has helped (e.g. students, employers, faculty at other institutions, or others); descriptions
of support offered

Instructional material developed regarding graduate teaching

Delivery of instruction such as syllabi; course requirements and assessment approaches

Evaluation of student learning such as student generated products; examples of completed
assignments

Awards or other recognition for graduate teaching

An example of a graduate syllabus (This is an addendum to the 10 page limit.)

Submission Deadline

Nominees files are due to the Office of the Provost by Feb. 3, 2017. Application files are to be submitted electronically to the Office of the Provost.

Selection Process

The selection committee will make a recommendation to the provost, who will select the winner. The winners
will be announced at the spring Faculty Awards Ceremony.